{"id":719230,"date":"2026-01-25T06:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/719230\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T06:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:59:17","slug":"road-reopened-following-major-collision-between-bee-network-bus-and-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/719230\/","title":{"rendered":"Road reopened following major collision between Bee Network bus and vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police cordoned off part of the road<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0_Screenshot-2026-01-24-151602.jpg\" alt=\"A Bee Network bus involved in a collision in Openshaw\" loading=\"eager\"  \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"A Bee Network bus involved in a collision in Openshaw\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">A Bee Network bus involved in a collision in Openshaw(Image: Gary Oakley)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A major Openshaw road has been fully reopened following a collision between two vehicles this morning (January 24).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police cordoned off part of Ashton Old Road, near to the junction of Wood Street, following the crash involving a black car and a Bee Network bus. The collision is understood to have taken place at around 8.55am on Saturday morning. Significant damage was caused to the front of both vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesperson for Transport for Greater Manchester said: &#8220;At around 08:55am this morning there was a collision between a bus and a car on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/ashton-and-mossley\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Ashton<\/a> Old Road, near to the junction of Wood Street, Openshaw. The road is now fully open. We assisted <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> at the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0_Screenshot-2026-01-24-151730.jpg\" alt=\"Second vehicle involved in a collision with a Bee Network bus \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Second vehicle involved in a collision with a Bee Network bus \" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Second vehicle involved in a collision with a Bee Network bus (Image: Gary Oakley)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Greater Manchester Police have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police cordoned off part of the road A Bee Network bus involved in a collision in Openshaw(Image: Gary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,71996,760,16,15],"class_list":["post-719230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-openshaw","tag-traffic-and-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115954448364951561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}